Northward to the Moon by Polly Horvath 244 pages

This humorous sequel to My One Hundred Adventures (A National Book Award winner) is about the road trip taken by a family from Canada to Nevada when the step-father loses his teaching job. Along the way they find a stash of cash that father Ned is not quite sure what to do with. So, they end up at his mother's desert ranch. This book is full of unconventional characters. The narrator Jane is trying to figure out which is her true father; each of her siblings have a different mystery father. She believes that she shares many of Ned's outlaw characteristics, but ultimately feels betrayed by him. By the end of this tale, the reader learns about a different kind of family drawn together by love more than genes.